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Archive for: January, 2012

GBG Interviews Jane St Pier

January 2012, photographed by John de Garis

  Jane St Pier is a great believer in having the power to talk about how you feel – and she is keenly aware that many young people lack a friendly ear at difficult times in their lives. It’s the reason why she and her Young People Guernsey Committee have raised a staggering £107,000 to [...]

Seasonal Affective Disorder by Dr. James Ray

Jack Manheim June 30 2009

With winter coming quickly towards us leading to dark mornings and early evenings, a condition that is often discussed at this time of year is S.A.D. In countries north of the equator, such as Guernsey, symptoms tend to develop from September and can take us right through to Spring. Some people love the winter. The [...]

Who is the adult in this relationship by Carrie

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Carrie’s girl turns the tables on her mother Last year was a roller coaster ride of changing jobs, becoming newly single and deciding to start finding out what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.  And in recent months I have discovered I am not alone. So many people I meet are [...]

Tony Leck’s Dark Chocolate Tart Recipe

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  DARK CHOCOLATE TART Serves 6 1 x 18cm pastry ring 250g Sweet Pastry 250g Dark Chocolate Couverture (chopped into small pieces) 2 Free Range Eggs 150ml Guernsey Whipping Cream 100ml Guernsey Full Cream Milk Blind bake an 18 cm diameter tart case using sweet paste and set aside. Once baked to a golden colour, [...]

Be the best you can be

Be the best you can be (2)

Look and feel your best ever in 2012 with our ultimate health, fitness and beauty special From banishing those extra pounds and inches and improving your fitness levels to smoothing out those tell-tale lines and wrinkles. We have approached the top health, fitness and beauty experts to show you how it’s done. We approached local [...]

A few diet tips to help you on your way

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  Exercise is not obligatory but it is not rocket science that if you eat less and exercise even a little more then you will lose those excess pounds. If going to the gym is out of the question then why not simply decide to take a fifteen minute walk each day. Small steps but [...]

February Fashion Shoot

January 2012, photographed by John de Garis

It’s that romantic time of the year when we all want to look our best in posh frocks, cool shirts – and get all loved up on the fashion front. Students from the College of Further Education chose some of the hottest new fashions from Joy and New Look and literally went up in the [...]

Young Enterprise’s Charity Easter Egg Hunt

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Fancy doing something different this Easter?! Young Enterprise are holding a Charity Easter Egg Hunt. It will be taking place on the 25th of March at Blanchelande. The cost will be £2 per child. On arrival they will be registered and given a bag to decorate in which they will collect the eggs. There will [...]

On the Sofa with…Bob Haskins

January 2012, photographed by John de Garis

Bob Haskins came to Guernsey in 1976 after training as a doctor in Wales followed by medical studies as a flying officer in the RAF. He has just retired from the Medical Specialist Group where he was a senior obstetrician and gynaecologist.  While he has plenty of ideas to keep him busy within the local [...]

Five ‘Peel Pie’ Facts You May Not Know

Five things you didn't know

Five ‘Peel Pie’ Facts A few days ago Kenneth Branagh was spotted having afternoon tea at Croix Guerin Had it not been for a fog clamp down at Guernsey airport the book would never have been written The movie will make a superstar of a Guernsey schoolgirl The film makers hope to import pigs to [...]

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